Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-09-07
NEWS IN BRIEF.

season.
The lyric which cost Tennyson the
most trouble was Come into the Gar
den, Maud
Wilson, the unequalled ornitholo-
gist, earned his living IN youth as a
iourneyman weaver.
Edgar Poe's father was a law
student, and his mother an actress
named Elizabeth Arnold.
The location of a congregational
college at Fargo IS assured. y $40, 900
building will be erected.
Lotus blossoms are gathered at
Prairie du CHEN, Wisconsin, and sold
on the streets of Madison.
brighton, collie dog that took
the prize in his class at the Barn Elms
show in England, has been sold for
goo.
Oregon imports much or the butter
She consumes, though there Is 10 better
dairy country III the world than Or
/ egOn.
There IS church in the east end
| of London where parties so desiring
can be married for seven pence ha'
/ penny.
New Haven, Connecticut, has
! 1000 Englishmen among her residents,
but less than 800 OF them, it is said, are
voters,
-Old-fashIoned "tatting'' is said to
have taken the place of other forms Of
fancy work on some summer hotel pI-
aZZ4s.
The crown prince of Germany Is
/ said to have been beyond question the
handsomest man in England's jubilee
! procession.
There are los cotton mills in the
south. Georgia heads the list with 80,
! Tennessee comes next with q, and
Alabama 20.
"A woman IN the Salt Rock Valley
| (ArizOna), who was shot at has had the
bullet mounted in gold and wears il as
a bIeast-pin.
The total cost of the Suez Canal
was less than SlOO. ZOO, 600 Already
S215, 100000 have been spent on the
Panama Canal.
Two veterans of the Mexican war,
1t Is stated, are among the members OF
the next Congress-RIce, of Minnesota,
and Hare, Of Texas.
In the Mexican church choir no
woman Is allowed 20 sing, so a descrip-
tiou of the investItuGe of the new
bishop of OaXaca states.
ing trees N this country is claimed by
Leavenworth, Kan, which has one
that contains 80, 900 trees.
The beard OF d man in Norwich.
Connecticut, local paper asserts, IS
SIX feet eight inches in length-a foot
or so longer than Its owner.
Sir T. +. Buxton says he owed
more TO his fathers gamekeeper, who
could neither Iead nor write, than to
any other source o. knowledge.
More bears have been killed in the
State of Maine this year than any
year previous wlthin the remembrance
OF the oliest furrIer III Lewiston.
The day the postal treaty with
Mexico went into effect leaiIng St.
Louis citizens sent President DIaz a
shaving OUTFIT ana Mrs. Diaz an ele-
CANT feather fan.
Among the natio;.5 witch do not
tax imported works Of art are England,
France, Germany, Italy and the Meth
erlands. The United States, China,
Turkey, Mexico and Canada rank with
those That do.
Nine Cinnamon caught coming
INTO this Country from British Column
bla We're refused a dOmicile in this
country, and had to pay $50 per head
TO the British Columbia government
for permission to return there.
Boston has a new club, Just or
ganized. 1t is called the Claiming
Club, is composed exclusively of young
Unitarian laymen, and The member
ship is limited to 100. The purpose of
the club is to do hearty work for the
Unitarian church.
The population OF Vienna was in
creased TO 3, ,OyO during tue past year,
and now embraces, with the suburbsl
1850 The number OF foreigners
resident IN Vienna has Just been ascer-
tanned tOT the first time. 1t Is Z 900.
including l 12S TIA ians, 49l Russians.
2l2 French and l4l English.
"A Boston man, after getting on a
Brooklyn street car, discovered that
he had no change less than a $50 blll.
The conductor lent HIM his fare and
the man took his name and address.
One day last week the conductor re-
ceived check for - from the Bos-
ton man in appreciation of his kindness
III lending him the nickel,
"A gentleman has written to J. J.
Minister, of Athens, Georgia, wanting
TO get the plate of the Confederate
postage stamp printed at Athens. The
Banner Watchman printed those
stamps at the old Office on Broad street.
The gentleman offers a good SUN for
plate. The plate probably has long
since been melted into type.
An Egyptian papyrus, f0rty-two
feet long and cOntaing all the chapters
of the Book of the Dead.'' has been
received and unrolled at the Sage Ii
bTary in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
1t was secured for the library by Rev.
DR.. Lansing, well known missionary
in Egypt. Experts pronounce it to
have been written nearly 1900 years
ago.
Rev. I. c. Blgley, of Camden,
New jersey, was called upon recently
by stylish looking couple who desired
to be welded. There being no imped-
, iment, the pastor soon made them one
. flesh. Then the groom handed the
r clergyman a large Official envelope
marked "a present with thanks"
Upon opening the envelope Mr. Bagley
found incloSed the sum of ten cents.
"A 'cycler who has returned TO his
nome in Maplewood, New Jersey, after
, trip through Europe and Africa on
| his tricycle., says he covered II, ,OOu
=, miles at an expense OF $500.
! -Toads, it is stated by an observer
, In Westield, Massachusetts,, are duped
. by electric lights lately located in some
retired streets there. II Is asserted
n that the batrachians, attracted by the
q brilliant light when the streets are
= quiet, gather 10y dozens under it and
+ hold high revels. The greatly enlarged
shadows of countless Insects fiuttering
around the light fall upon the ground,
and the innocent toalS, thinking them
\ to be real, hop about in all directions
to catch them, making it seem as
Il though they were going through q
merry cotillion.